On Jun 1, 2006, at 12:22 AM, Peter Ansell wrote:
So we can promote things
Could you expand on this? AFAIK, the topic under discussion was a template, intended to be placed on user pages, containing the text: "This user is a Satanist" (IIRC). Is this intended to promote something? Is this intended to promote the improvement of some article in Wikipedia? Generally, most things in the non-article space parts of Wikipedia are designed to assist in writing the encyclopedia, or reflect on such writing. Unless I am mistaken, very few if any things on Wikipedia are designed to promote anything, except possibly Wikipedia itself. I look forward to you expanding on what you mean by this.
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Wikipedia should allow editors no matter what background they come from.
And (baring the Islamic issue discussed here ad nausaum), what evidence do you have that Wikipedia does not? Deleting a template is not blocking anyone from editing the encyclopedia, unless I am seriously out of touch here...
<further major sniping>
Jesse Weinstein